different between typ vs specie

Czech

Etymology

From German Typ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?p]
• Hyphenation: typ
• Rhymes: -?p
• Homophone: tip

Noun

typ m inan

1. (programming) type

Declension

Related terms

• typový
• typický m
• atypický
• netypický
• týpek

Further reading

• typ in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• typ in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ip

Verb

typ

1. first-person singular present indicative of typen
2. imperative of typen

Polish

Etymology

From French type, from Ecclesiastical Latin typus, from Ancient Greek ????? (túpos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?p/

Noun

typ m inan

1. sort, type
2. phylum

Declension

Noun

typ m pers (diminutive typek, feminine typiara)

1. (colloquial, derogatory) guy, somebody

Declension

Further reading

• typ in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• typ in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

typ c

1. type
2. jerk, disagreeable person

   han är en riktig typ

   he's a real jerk

Declension

Adverb

typ

1. (slang) like; be like: to say; kinda, ish

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spi??i/

Etymology 1

Originally in the phrase in specie; from Latin speci?, ablative singular of species. Compare payment in kind.

Noun

specie (uncountable)

1. Type or kind, in various uses of the phrase in specie.
2. Money, especially in the form of coins made from precious metal, that has an intrinsic value; coinage.
   • 1830, Joseph Plumb Martin, A Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, Ch. IX:

     I received one month's pay in specie while on the march to Virginia, in the year 1781, and except that, I never received any pay worth the name while I belonged to the army.

   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 805:

     ‘It was not money or specie he thought himself hunting!’

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 8:

     “Dick” Counterfly had absquatulated swiftly into the night, leaving his son with only a pocketful of specie and the tender admonition, “Got to ‘scram,’ kid — write if you get work.”

Translations

See also

• payment in kind

Etymology 2

Back-formation from species (plural), the final “s” being misinterpreted as a plural ending.

Noun

specie (plural species)

1. (proscribed) singular of species

Usage notes

• Although in wide use, this is universally considered by prescriptive references to be an error.

Anagrams

• pieces

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin speci?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spe?.si/
• Hyphenation: spe?cie
• Rhymes: -e?si

Noun

specie f (plural speciën or species)

1. mortar (in sense of mixture of lime or cement, sand and water)

   Synonyms: metselspecie, mortel

2. coinage, specie, coins
3. material used in casting

Derived terms

• metselspecie

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin speci?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?.t??e/
• Rhymes: -?t?e
• Hyphenation: spè?cie

Adverb

specie

1. especially, particularly

Derived terms

• fare specie (“to amaze, shock”)

Noun

specie f (invariable)

1. kind, type, sort
2. (biology) species, strain, breed
3. (taxonomy) species

Related terms

• cronospecie
• speciale
• speciazione
• specifico

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?spe.ki.e?/, [?s?p?kie?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?spe.t??i.e/, [?sp??t??i?]

Noun

speci?

1. ablative singular of speci?s

Preposition

speci?

1. Under the pretext of. Under the guise of.

References

• specie in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin speci?s.

Noun

specie f (plural specii)

1. (biology) species
2. kind, type, sort

See also

• gen
• tip
• fel